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BP meldet Asset-Tausch und Joint Venture mit Husky Energy London (aktiencheck.de AG) - Die britische BP plc (ISIN GB0007980591/ WKN 850517), der größte Ölkonzern in Europa, kündigte am Mittwoch einen Asset-Tausch und Joint Ventures mit der Husky Energy Inc. (ISIN CA4480551031/ WKN 552934), dem viertgrößten Ölförderer in Kanada, an. Im Rahmen der Asset-Transaktion wird BP die Hälfte seiner Ölraffinerie in Toledo (Ohio) gegen 50 Prozent der Anteile des Sunrise-Ölfelds von Husky Energy in Alberta (Kanada) tauschen. In der Folge werden zwei unabhängige 50:50 Joint Ventures gegründet, welche die entsprechenden Aktivitäten besitzen und betreiben sollen. Die Aktie von BP gewinnt in London aktuell 1,79 Prozent auf 598,00 Pence, die von Husky Energy in Toronto 3,58 Prozent auf 40,55 Kanadische Dollar (05.12.2007/ac/n/a) Quelle: aktiencheck.de AG

BP, Husky Energy in $5.5. Billion Deal Posted 05 December 2007 @ 01:26 pm EST BP PLC and Husky Energy Inc., Canada's No. 5 oil-and-gas producer, said Wednesday they would invest $5.5 billion over the next seven years in the third large cross-border deal to tie up Canadian oil sands output with U.S. refining. Mimicking last year's $10.7 billion deal between ConocoPhillips and Canada's biggest producer, EnCana Corp., the companies will exchange stakes in Husky's Sunrise oil sands venture in Alberta and BP's Toledo, Ohio, refinery through a pair of joint ventures. The partnership is effective Jan. 1, 2008, and following regulatory approval, the deal is expected to close in the first quarter. Canada is the biggest crude-oil exporter to the United States, accounting for nearly a fifth of its southern neighbor's imports, and there's a deepening of already strong ties between the two countries. ConocoPhillips and EnCana kicked off the trend in October 2006, while Marathon Oil Corp. recently closed its takeover of Western Oil Sands Inc., a minority partner in the vast Athabasca oil sands project led by Royal Dutch Shell PLC. The announcement coincides with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' decision earlier Wednesday to maintain current crude output levels, despite intense lobbying from big oil consumers like the U.S. to raise production to ease high prices. While unrelated, the timing highlights the U.S.'s focus on energy security and the lessening of its traditional reliance on the Middle East. Britain's BP has been conspicuously absent from Alberta, whose vast oil resources, second only to Saudi Arabia, have drawn its international peers, eager to boost reserve holdings as they struggle to access other oil-rich nations such as Russia and Venezuela. And though Alberta's trove is largely a heavy, sludgy bitumen that's tricky and expensive to process, recent oil prices near $100 a barrel have made oil sands projects extremely profitable. Under the terms of the deal, BP and Husky will operate the two partnerships on a 50-50 basis. The oil sands partnership focuses on Husky's Sunrise project, whose first 60,000 barrel-a-day phase is expected to start producing in 2012. The companies plan to spend 3 billion Canadian dollars ($2.98 billion) by that date. The project, operated by Husky, will eventually build up to 200,000 barrels a day over the next decade. The bitumen will be transported from the Hardisty, Alberta, hub down to BP's 155,000 barrel-a-day Toledo refinery through existing pipeline networks. The facility can currently process 60,000 barrels a day of heavy crude such as bitumen, but the companies plan to double this, expanding total capacity to 170,000 barrels a day by 2015, spending $2.5 billion in the process. BP will operate the refinery as a U.S. refining LLC. The arrangement is a near-replica of the ConocoPhillips deal, which exchanged equity in two of EnCana's oil sands projects for a stake in two of ConocoPhillips' U.S. Midwest refineries. Husky's vice president of oil sands, Gary Mihaichuk, said this summer a deal along these lines could be "a practical solution," given the high cost of refining assets. He added, however, that the company was also looking at buying another refinery following its Lima, Ohio, acquisition from Valero Energy Corp., to handle projected oil sands volumes. Lima has refining capacity of 160,000 barrels a day and Husky plans to convert it to handle conventional heavy crude from its oil sands upgrader at Lloydminster, Alberta, rather than tying it to Sunrise. Read the full aticle of: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20071205/bp-husky-energy-in-5-5-billion-deal.htm Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Bekanntlich zeigen alle Ethanolproduzenten in den USA Verluste. Für eine Produktion unter dem stärkeren kanadischen $ muß das aber noch mehr gelten. Suncor betreibt seit 2006 die größte Anlage in Kanada. Mich macht es nervös, wenn im gesamten 36 Seiten Zahlenwerk für das vergangene Quartal kein Hinweis auf die Situation der Ethanolgewinnung zu finden ist. Weiß jemand darüber etwas?